Text Parser - Replace 's goal is to replace the original xml section with the modified fed by a Make.com agent in the same workflow.
My workflow work great when I upload the xml payload up to 1 MB, but when I upload an xml payload beyond 1 MB (long string), Text Parser - Replace truncates my output.
I receive this message at the end of my output: End of data sample, string was originally 1796719 characters long.
Why doesn’t Text Parser - Replace node output the full string instead of truncated one?
Steps taken so far
I don’t know what to do to. It must be some limitation from Make that I don’t know of. Anyone have any solutions or insights why Text Parser - Replace truncates my xml string for no reason?
what are you trying to replace exactly? If you are trying to parse an XML file, maybe you can try with the built in XML module instead?
Also, Make wont show large files and will always cut them, it doesn’t necessarily mean it didn’t process them. What are you getting as a result when you map this in the next module?
This is likely because the pattern in your Replace module did not match the content correctly. Even if it did, there is a user interface character display limit, otherwise your browser window might hang.
If you need assistance to see if the Replace module is working correctly, could you provide a sample of your file and pattern?
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Hi Stoyan, thank you for your response and trying to help. Here is the process in a nutshell. My app sends the xml payload and the user prompt to the webhook. My agent processes the xml payload, extracts the xml string needed to be changed based on the user prompt, changes the xml string and sends it back downstream to: Text Parser - Match Pattern, Tools - Aggregator, Text Parser - Replace, Dropbox - Upload a file, Dropbox - Create a share link and lastly to the webhook - response node.
I can accept that Text Parser - Replace module might output the full string and it truncates because of the UI display, but why then Text Parser - Replace module outputs different amount of characters than the original payload (less). The user prompt is simply to change the xml particular values, not to add or remove anything.
Maybe the problem is in the Text Parser - Match module and my pattern. Please see below the pattern I am using in my Text Parser - Match module (after my agent module):
Unfortunately, without sample text, it is not possible to assist with a text parser pattern.
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